J. IRVING-GILES: Hi. I'm J. Irving-Giles with Gearwire.Com, and I'm here with the Bogner Alchemist 212. It's a two 12" speaker combo amp with six EL6 power tubes in the class AB power section, and five 12AX7's in the preamp. The Mercury channel starts out with the very important gain control. It has treble, middle, bass EQs and volume just like you'd find in any standard amp, and then for -- it switches down here. You've got a punch switch which just gives it, gives your tone a little more clarity there, a little, well, punch, and bright switch and a mid shift switch, which obviously kinds of boosts the mids a little bit on the gain channel here.

All right. So now we're on the Mercury channel of the Bogner Alchemist. I had the EQ settings originally all at 12 o'clock but it was sounding really muddy to me. I dialed up the treble up a little bit and it gives it a lot more clarity, so we have the mid and bass at 12 o'clock, we have the treble at about 2:30, 3 o'clock. Here's the Mercury channel with none of the switches on.

[J. IRVING-GILES PLAYS GUITAR RIFFS AND LICKS THROUGH THE MERCURY CHANNEL OF THE BOGNER ALCHEMIST]

All right. And let's turn the punch switch on, a little punchier sound.

[J. IRVING-GILES PLAYS GUITAR RIFFS AND LICKS THROUGH THE MERCURY CHANNEL OF THE BOGNER ALCHEMIST WITH THE PUNCH SWITCH ON]

All right. Now Let's brighten up the tone here.

[J. IRVING-GILES PLAYS GUITAR LICKS AND RIFFS THROUGH THE MERCURY CHANNEL OF THE BOGNER ALCHEMIST WITH THE BRIGHT SWITCH ON]

And finally, let's shift up the mids.

[J. IRVING-GILES PLAYS GUITAR RIFFS THROUGH THE MERCURY CHANNEL OF THE BOGNER ALCHEMIST WITH THE MID SHIFT SWITCH ON]

All right, and that will do it for the Mercury section, and we'll go to the effects section next.